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morestuff posted:It's been a bit since I've seen it but I really didn't think of Road Warrior as a direct sequel Well, it takes place a couple of years after Mad Max, but it's the same character and car, just worse for the wear of being in the forbidden zone. It is explicitly the childhood memories of an old man, but it's obviously a continuation of the story started in the first movie. Fury Road is more ambiguous and just tells a Mad Max story without trying to fit it into any existing timeline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n29c-q3_8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdr-f3MZgqo SimonCat fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 21:39
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Bottom Liner posted:great too, but FR is a masterpiece and basically the movie he wanted to be able to make all along IMO. Fury Road is the best action film ever made. It's so good that T2 and Aliens feel dull and rote by comparison.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Fury Road is the best action film ever made. It's so good that T2 and Aliens feel dull and rote by comparison. Sure, Fury Road is excellent, but this post is  worthy.
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Jun 13, 2018 12:57
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A.o.D. posted:Sure, Fury Road is excellent, but this post is Eh, T2 still owns, but Aliens is overrated.
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Well I watched some utter poo poo movies. The Vault - Robbers try to rob a bank but how unfortunate for them they picked the wrong bank to rob. This bank has a haunted vault. Yes you read that right. That is the premise of this movie, a haunted bank vault. 1/5 Delirium - Movie about a guy who is released out of a mental hospital after many years. He was falsely accused of something and put inside. Comes back to his parent's mansion where he lives alone and starts seeing things. 1/5 Onibaba - Old Japanese horror movie. Great story telling, great cinematography, great music, great acting, great everything. I actually read an analysis of this that it was about communism vs capitalism but ya this movie is a lot deeper than it seems but the surface story is great as well. 5/5
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Murder Weapon - 1989 Linnea Quigley pseudo vanity project. Really awful, but has a solid Eric Freeman performance that gives it a bit of heft. His eyebrows aren't as ridiculous as in Silent Night, Deadly Night 2, but he's still watchable as hell. The mixing is so bad that most of the time the background diegetic music is louder than the dialogue, so we ended up putting on subtitles. Turned out to be a great decision as the music was subtitled too.    2/5 for movie. 5/5 for Eric Freeman and amazing subtitles. Also, one of the deaths involves a hand going through someone's chest and feeding them their own guts. It comes out of nowhere and is confusing as all hell.
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Won't you be My Neighbor? - A I knew I was going to cry. I cried.
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Hereditary - 2.5/5 great style, not much substance. Director has a great eye and feel for tension and pace, but needs to work with a screenwriter. Incredibles 2 - 4/5 tons of charm and humor but not as good as the original. Felt overly safe for such a long awaited sequel. The first is my favorite Pixar movie.
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Tailored Sauce posted:Won't you be My Neighbor? - A This has been doing gangbusters at our theater and there are a LOT of red faces coming out of that auditorium. Probably going to win oscars.
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haven't done this in a minute- everything I've seen so far in theaters from 3/19-6/20. The Good: Upgrade You Were Never Really Here Isle of Dogs Filmworker The Pretty Good (but I doubt I'd ever rewatch it): Boom For Real (basquiat doc) The eh/mediocre/catch on cable: Flower Pacific Rim 2 Solo The Endless Ready Player One I Feel Pretty Avengers Infinity (i'm very tepid about marvel poo poo usually..it was fine, def didn't need to be 2.5 hours long) Deadpool 2 American Animals How To Talk To Girls At Parties Supertroopers 2 The I wish I could get my time back list: Unsane Acrimony (my first tyler perry movie will also be my last tyler perry movie) A Wrinkle In Time Superfly (with the caveat that I think this will be one of those movies people watch and mock furiously in the future, possibly making it better?)
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Y Tu Mama Tambien (blu rewatch) - 90/100 Won't You Be My Neighbor - 79/100
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Reluctant hero pulled back into the action when an enemy attacks. Awkwardly out-of-touch parents on college move-in day. Random hot girl that cavorts around the camera for sex appeal. Irritating walking Internet nerd stereotype. Does any of this sound familiar? It should, because it's been done in countless movies before, all with better written plots and characters. Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen (2009): D This was not watched by choice. A friend of mine wanted us to see his copy of the movie, so I indulged him. Mistake. I did not watch the original Transformers cartoon in the '80s nor any of the more recent Transformers movie, but I had no interest in changing that after watching RoTF. Almost everything about this movie was irritating. Nearly every word out of the curly-haired neckbeard guy with the website made me want to punch him in the face. There was a lot of pretty CGI and fast-moving fights, but I had trouble keeping up with the action and didn't care to keep up. In the end, this felt less like a movie than a string of cliches from the Generic Movie Blockbuster book. Let me guess: Michael Bay movie?
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Jun 24, 2018 22:17
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This was not watched by choice. A friend of mine wanted us to see his copy of the movie, so I indulged him. Mistake. What was so special about his copy that required extra viewers? Was it a quantum edition that changed when observed?
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Jun 24, 2018 23:04
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Nothing. He's autistic, and I'm taking care of him over the summer. He'll often bring over movies he wants to watch.
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Just watched Thoroughbreds loving incredible and easily in top 10 of the year. Fantastic dark comedy.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Just watched Thoroughbreds The marketing ruined the movie for me. I was expecting "Heathers meets American Psycho" and it's most definitely not that. I guess it worked in that it got me to go see it, but I thought it was just ok at best personally. For the record my fav dark comedy of the year is Death of Stalin
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Jun 25, 2018 18:26
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Jurassic World 2 - 1/5 definitely the dumbest movie I've seen in a decade or two. Not in the dumb summer movie way that's still fun like the first, but off putting and uncomfortable to watch. It had no clue what kind of movie it wanted to be as well. Just offensively dumb.
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Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles) [Blu-ray - Preview Version] - n/a - watched with Jonathan Rosenbaum/James Naremore commentary Cavalcade (1933, Frank Lloyd) [DVD] - 2.5/5 A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven) [Blu-ray] - 3.5/5 Incredibles 2 (2018, Brad Bird) [Theatrical] - 4.25/5 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984, Michael Radford) [Blu-ray - Director's Cut] - 4/5 Syncopation (1942, William Dieterle) [Blu-ray] - 3/5 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971, Melvin van Peebles) [Filmstruck] - 3.5/5 Blind Husbands (1919, Erich von Stroheim) [DVD] - 2.5/5 Queen Kelly (1929, Erich von Stroheim) [DVD] - 3/5 The Ladies Man (1961, Jerry Lewis) [DVD] - 3/5 Also finally finished watching all of Criterion's A Hollis Frampton Odyssey. I can't say I loved all his films, but they're certainly interesting and clever. Almost too clever.
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Jun 25, 2018 20:09
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Egbert Souse posted:
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1984 - I regret that I haven't read the novel yet, so I can't say whether it's a faithful adaptation. I did feel that it was somewhat obscure at times, as if you're supposed to be more familiar with the book. Is it bad that I find Brazil to be a far superior take, even if it's not an official adaptation? (Also, I watched the Twilight Time Blu-ray which uses the bleach bypass color grading used by DP Roger Deakins and an orchestral score rather than the Eurythmics songs) Sweet Sweetback - I love how wild Van Peebles gets with the camera and editing. It's a real trip of the film, even if some parts really haven't aged well. Still worth seeing for being an important piece of 70s black cinema.
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Egbert Souse posted:1984 - I regret that I haven't read the novel yet, so I can't say whether it's a faithful adaptation. I did feel that it was somewhat obscure at times, as if you're supposed to be more familiar with the book. Is it bad that I find Brazil to be a far superior take, even if it's not an official adaptation? (Also, I watched the Twilight Time Blu-ray which uses the bleach bypass color grading used by DP Roger Deakins and an orchestral score rather than the Eurythmics songs) The Eurythmics track is actually good; we did a benefit screening last year and ran it with that. It's as faithful a film adaptation as we're ever liable to get. The book spends more time on what it means to systematically erase language, etc. It's a fantastic, haunting book, probably moreso for being so accessible and easy to read...but I think that was Orwell's intention. Also, I think Mario Van Peebles did a docudrama about the making of his dad's film back in '03???
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Jun 25, 2018 21:18
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Won't you be my neighbor? - 143/10 It gave me the McFeelys.
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Spectral: B It's fine for what it is, a low-budget Netflix original sci fi action flick with monsters. It doesn't try to be anything else, and between a kinda neat idea or two, not being misogynistic, and 95% of the movie obeying the rules it set up, I think it's well above average for this kind of movie. It's not good a good movie by any objective measure, but it doesn't pretend to be anything but a low-budget Netflix original action flick with monsters.
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Tag is a silly movie, and it knows it, and never takes itself too seriously, and isn't afraid to get goofy. You should see it if you like absurd comedies. I don't rewatch a ton of movies, but I was encouraged to give 2001: A Space Odyssey a second chance, and it really is a lot more cognizant the second time through, and it should be seen because it is a legit masterpiece. I think a single watch through though, there's just so much going on it's hard to really digest. Speaking of movies with a ton going on, The Crater Lake Monster is definitely that and probably also needs several viewings to fully digest. It's another one of these movies that really becomes worth watching when you realize that it is in fact a love story.
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I saw Hitman: Dia del Soldier. The first ten minutes are pretty wild. The movie overall is a lot more brutal than the first one. The cinematography doesn't hold up as much but overall it's great if you enjoyed Sicario. B
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Sicario 2 - 5/5 Best sequel in ages. Screenplay was tight and tense, cinematography was killer, and the movie had a lot of weight even without Emily Blunt’s character weighing it down. This writer hasn’t missed yet for me. Best of the year so far. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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The Battle Wizard - 1977, Shaw Brothers. 5/5 Kung fu snake eating metal chicken legging fire breathing gorilla fighting laser fingering limb amputating incestuous claw hand bitchslapping insanity. Incredibly highly recommended.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising - 1/5 I liked the original Pacific Rim in part because it was so different, the plot was a bit silly but it had good robot vs monster action. The characters in Pacific Rim were well, something else, if anything they took action move and racial stereotyping pretty far, almost but not quite too far, just enough to make it interesting in a quirky way. As for Uprising, I didn't care for any of the characters, the main characters didn't even seem like they wanted to be involved in the fight. The plot skipped straight past silly and entertaining to over the top ridiculous in no time and there was a significant lack of robot vs monster action which was the entire reason for watching the first movie. Uprising only served to make me want to re-watch the original in a vain attempt to erase the sequel from my brain.
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Sicario 2 4/5. Didn't think the story was as tight as the original, and I didn't feel like the ending made a whole lot of sense. However, I was happy with the movies pacing and action. I thought Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin were both quite good. Definitely worth a watch.
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Tau - 1/5 I knew within the first 15 minutes that this was gonna be a total shitshow, and I was right. Judging by his performance, Gary Oldman probably knew it too.
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The Great Dictator (1940, rewatch): A Not generally considered to be one of Chaplin's best, but it's one of Chaplin's best in my opinion. The speech at the end still gives me goosebumps. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Jul 10, 2018 |
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Jul 10, 2018 02:51
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Funny Games (1997): A You should probably finish Funny Games before giving it a score.
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I took your advice and watched the rest of Funny Games. I'm glad I did, because now that I found out that the entire movie is some sort of elaborate troll of the audience, I want to amend my grade to D. The movie itself is fine; makes you feel like you've been through the ringer with the characters. So is the acting. But making a movie as pointlessly violent as this one in some sort of statement on violence in media is like loving for virginity. Attempting to neutralize your audience's objection to violence because "well, you watched the entire movie so you can't complain" is obnoxious and unhelpful.
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Samuel Clemens posted:How did you expect it to end? Dunno. I guess I expected Anna to successfully flee the house before they returned. I'm not annoyed that the film plays with your expectations, though. Despite supposedly being passionate about violence in media, filmmaker Haneke undermines his own arguments (which I think are valid) by tricking his audience into watching a lot of violence and then smugly taking them to task for sitting through the entire movie. That said, I still think that the movie itself is engrossing and good, if extremely hard to watch. I've sat through Caligula, Leonard, Part VI and many of the other worst movies ever made with less difficulty than Funny Games.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Despite supposedly being passionate about violence in media, filmmaker Haneke undermines his own arguments (which I think are valid) by tricking his audience into watching a lot of violence and then smugly taking them to task for sitting through the entire movie. I think that's a perfectly valid take on the film, even though I personally disagree. What puzzles me is that you liked the first half so much, since it seemed to me like Haneke puts his cards on the table very early on and then just carries things through to their inevitably grim conclusion.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I think that's a perfectly valid take on the film, even though I personally disagree. What puzzles me is that you liked the first half so much, since it seemed to me like Haneke puts his cards on the table very early on and then just carries things through to their inevitably grim conclusion. Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just that for me, it became a lot more obvious in the second part, especially after the rewind scene. That was consistent with some of the things I saw in the first part, but it was frustrating because it felt like the game was rigged. Not a bad movie, though. Is the 2007 remake as good?
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The 2007 remake is by the same director and is basically almost exactly the same Also thank you for making the ulitimate wrong "I'm sure it's safe to post my opinion on this movie without finishing it" post
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Three Identical Strangers - A Crazy true story about triplets separated from birth. The story gets more bizarre as it goes on, pretty jaw-dropping.
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